"Phil Nelson" wrote in message I
collect radios for the purpose of restoring and using them, so the concept
of owning an unplayable "shelf queen" holds little allure. I doubt that
recapping would seriously affect the value of this particular set, but
then
I don't operate a museum full of shelf queens. You can always save the old
caps in a sack in case some future owner wants to restuff them. Keep in
mind
that it's basically impossible to restuff a plastic cap such as a Black
Beauty.

Regards,

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html


I'll bet Syl comes up with replicas pretty soon, if he hasn't already.

Should be very easy to make molds of the originals, and then
recast mylars with an expoxy shell... Add some paint, lettering,
viola!

Pete

" Uncle Peter" wrote in message
news:6egOb.10630$ct4.4087@lakeread05...
I don't operate a museum full of shelf queens. You can always save the
old
caps in a sack in case some future owner wants to restuff them. Keep in
mind
that it's basically impossible to restuff a plastic cap such as a Black
Beauty.

I'll bet Syl comes up with replicas pretty soon, if he hasn't already.

Sure, why not. And rather than waste good new mylars inside those repros, he
can have a few hundred bad old paper caps from my saving-sacks. Then he can
peddle the repackaged "bumblebees" to guitar guys on Ebay for $$$. No point
wasting time trying to match up correct values -- those guys want
distortion, and I have bushels to offer!

:-)

Phil